From: hrishy samant (hrishys at domain yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue 22 May 2001 - 10:13:07 IST
I'm running HP-UX.
Normally, when you ftp to a host, you are allowed to
define a macro, using the macdef command, and execute
it with arguments, preceding the macro name with a $.
But when i attempt to do the same thing from within a
shell script, i run into problems.
ftp daytona < prompt
macdef test
lcd $1
!pwd
cd $2
pwd
$ test /home/ksubrama/ftpsrc /home/kode/ftpdest
bye
endl
############### End of script
########################################
When i run this script, ( without the 'prompt', so
that i can see the responses ), i find that $1 and $2
are not
substituted, but are taken as blank spaces.
If you could help me find out why, i'd be very
grateful!!!
regrads
hrishy
--- "John P. Looney" <john at domain antefacto.com> wrote: > On
Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:52:05AM +0100, hrishy
> samant mentioned:
> > could anybody please provide with an example on
> how to
> > call an execute a macro from a shell script.
>
> What sort of Macro ? It's not a term usually used
> in Unix - do you mean
> an alias, or a shell function ?
>
> Kate
>
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